Jacqueline Heard, founder and CEO of Enko, decided to move the company away from Boston to a 91,000-square-foot facility in Mystic, CT.
“We don’t see any downside associated with relocating outside the Boston area,” Heard said. “It’s very easy for our venture investors to come from Boston to this area, and I think it opens their eyes to the other possibilities of opportunities that could develop in places outside of the Boston area.”
Enko is a research and development startup in search of environmentally-friendly pest controls. Its researchers use machine learning technology to parse through gigantic datasets of known chemical reactions, to try to find compounds that are toxic to pests, but harmless to plant life and other organisms.